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Mikhail
Beketov is lucky to be alive, although I'm sure there are days when he
doesn't think so. On November 13, 2008, the environmental reporter who
campaigned against a highway that would have destroyed a forest in Khimki, a
town outside Moscow,
was beaten nearly to death by men with metal bars. The attackers made a special
effort to destroy his hands and left him to die in the November cold. He would
have if neighbors had not noticed him and called the police 24 hours after the
attack.

With surprise and relief, Ugandan journalists, who routinely face the police's "media crimes" unit, welcomed a partial victory for press freedom on Wednesday. The country's constitutional court had ruled that criminal sedition was unconstitutional. Even so, there was a consensus that more legal press battles lie ahead.